2005.03.21 21:23
new Trumbauer fan (system) - Unbekannt
Eutropia began speaking just a few minutes after Walter died, ie, just a few minutes after the seat front row and center was filled. She went immediately to The Marriage of...
...champ had them all laughing, as usual. But all the same Walter was thrilled to go through the back door again. He even received his own set of 2 KEY.
"This whole initiating experience has been like a great positive confirmation of my work."
Refreshments included Paul's and Peter Paul's latest batch of Jenne Wine. Oh, and corned beef and sauerkraut with melted cheese sandwiches.
2005.03.21 22:14
Re: new Trumbauer fan (system)
You had to ask, didn't you?
Philadelphia certainly helped and continues to help.
Spending 5 weeks driving in a brand new Mercedes-Benz 220S through Germany and Austria the summer of 1963, didn't hurt my imagination either.
The original edition of the board game Clue, which we very early had a used copy of, was the murder mansion rendered in strict ichnographic manner.
And then there's the ongoing trying to figure out and deal with the schizophrenic imagination, I guess.
I'm just in too much of a good mood right now. I'm sitting here laughing. So I'm gonna sign off for now.
Let me at least first send something tomorrow about this CAD model I worked with today.
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2005.03.22 09:26
Re: dev, pres, demo
Thanks for letting us know about these buildings. It's great even just seeing them in pictures, and it's very sad that they will soon be demolished. Despite the fact that this group will most likely not be saved, you still have the opportunity to do some preservation, ie, take lots of images of the complex before and while it goes. Sometimes that's all you really can do (and even that isn't done enough). I'm reminded of HABS (Historic American Building Survey) and how they record (via photographs and/or measured drawings) historic and/or important American structures (sometimes right before they disappear). This Pillsbury (is it?) behemoth should at least not be completely forgotten.
I was thinking, given lots of images from all around the complex, and the new satellite/aerial images, it might not be so difficult (for me) to construct a fairly decent 3D CAD model of the gigantic geometric place.
dev, pres, demo and hopefully mnemonics?
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2005.03.22 09:53
Re: any artists that make images like lichtensteins brushstrokes - Unbekannt
"Bored with the very practice of wielding a brush and deeply dissatisfied with painting as the only means to "make" something, he not only decided to stop being a painter in the conventional sense but set his mind to work on the whole problem of the artist's engagement with the real world. Rejecting established approaches to art as well as the contemporary modes of the Cubists and Furturists, and suspicious of the very concept of "reality" which his colleagues still attempted to explore (in however radical a way), he began to construct his own alternative version of reality: a mythic, pseudoscientific system which brought the tools of chance, humor, and ironic indifference into play."
—Anne d"Harnoncourt and Walter Hopps, 1969
Ah, the joy of good old-fashioned reenactionary architecturism.
You do know that Rubens' first commissioned work was three paintings for the Helena chapel of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, don't you? Extra points if you also know Santa Croce in Gerusalemme was dedicated 20 March (probably) 327 AD. Think of the whole place as a reenactment of things that once happened in Jerusalem at the first full moon after the vernal equinox.
2005.03.22 10:26
church and synagogue
Since learning that Le Corbusier's St. Pierre at Firminy-Vert is again under construction and slated for completion 2006, I had been thinking about the 3D CAD model of this building design in Quondam's collection. I was reminded of (a set of 1998 Quondam web pages that exhibited) how the plan of St. Pierre fit very nicely into the sanctuary of Louis Kahn's Hurva Synagogue.
Yesterday, I placed the model of St. Pierre inside the model of Hurva Synagogue, and started rendering images of the results. I thought I was really just playing until I thought about the architectural implications of designing a Roman Catholic Church within a Jewish Synagogue. Would such an architecture speak to how Christianity is more or less wrapped in Judaism? And, given the nature of the Hurva design, there is every evocation of St. Pierre being "wrapped with ruins."
And then I though of how I was doing all this playing the day after Palm Sunday, like right after Jesus cleared out the Temple of all the commercialism (and later in the week crucified for doing so).
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2005.03.22 10:42
Re: new Trumbauer fan (system)
here's some of my favorite quotations from
Philadelphia. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Etant Données: 1° la chute d'eau. 2° le gaz d'éclairage. Reflections on a new work by MARCEL DUCHAMP. Texts by A. d'Harnoncourt and W. Hopps. (Bulletin. Vol. 64, No. 299/300.) Philadelphia, 1969
so far:
"The timing of Duchamp's artistic activity always ranged between the carefully planned and the chance creation, the long-drawn-out deliberate process and the swift decision."
"Bored with the very practice of wielding a brush and deeply dissatisfied with painting as the only means to "make" something, he not only decided to stop being a painter in the conventional sense but set his mind to work on the whole problem of the artist's engagement with the real world. Rejecting established approaches to art as well as the contemporary modes of the Cubists and Furturists, and suspicious of the very concept of "reality" which his colleagues still attempted to explore (in however radical a way), he began to construct his own alternative version of reality: a mythic, pseudoscientific system which brought the tools of chance, humor, and ironic indifference into play."
"Not as explicit as water or gas, but equally present in Duchamp's "amusing physics" is the invisible current of electricity. The potential connection between Bride and Bachelors is an "electrical stripping" with all sorts of eccentric fixtures: the "desire-magneto," the "motor with quite feeble cylinders." The failure to connect is a short circuit. The same current runs quite literally through Duchamp's rotating optical machines of 1920 and 1925, and the Rotoreliefs of 1935. An early note in the Box of 1914 proposes: "L'electricite en large, Seule utilization possible de l'electricite 'dans les arts.' Duchamp's metaphor to describe the encounter between the spectator and a work of art is that of a "spark" which "gives birth to something, like electricity."
2005.03.22 12:52
Re: dev, pres, demo
Gordon just left the quondam Sears Powerhouse and moved to Minneapolis. He knows exactly where he's going, and he's gonna stay there as long as he can.
2005.03.22 13:28
Re: dev, pres, demo
"That was just you-know-who on the phone. He left for Minneapolis too."
"Oh, don't worry, Otto. You know they'll be back 27 August to deliver their papers."
"The Promenade Architecturale Formula"
Le Corbusier
"Learning From Lacunae"
Gordon Matta-Clark
27 August 1965 death of Le Corbusier
27 August 1978 death of Gordon Matta-Clark
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